Famous Quotes & Sayings

Treat Williams

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

Trenton Lee Stewart

No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.

Veronica Roth

The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

Viktor Yanukovych

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

Vikas Khanna

Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.

Rebecca Solnit

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

Robert G. Allen

A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.

Robert G. Allen

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

Robert G. Allen

The more clarity you have, the more powerful your goals are.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Rudy Giuliani

Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts.

Sandra Cisneros

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

Sandra Cisneros

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

Samuel Johnson

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

Samuel Johnson

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

Samuel Johnson

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Samuel Johnson

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

Samuel Johnson

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.

Sam Wyly

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

Rufus Choate

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Rufus Wainwright

I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.

Rufus Wainwright

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

Rowan Williams

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

Ronald Reagan

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

Robyn

So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.

Robertson Davies

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Robert Spector

Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Wallace Stevens

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Virgil

You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento